Celebrity Family Shockers
Secret siblings, love children and a whole host of paternity tests; the stars certainly have their fair share of family revelations...
PA PhotosArnold Schwarzenegger certainly won’t be back after he admitted to fathering a secret child with a long-term member of his household staff. The former governor of California is said to have only told his wife Maria Shriver about his offspring - who was born over a decade ago - earlier this year, prompting their very public separation after 25 years of marriage.
ARNIE’S SECRET LOVE CHILD REVEALED!
PA Photos/www.paphotos.comDaisy Lowe found out that her mother’s ex-husband Bronner Lowe wasn’t her father when she discovered that neither he nor her mother shared her O-type blood. A paternity test revealed that she was conceived during the brief affair her mother had with Gavin Rossdale. His wife, Gwen Stefani, was apparently furious when she found out.
PA Photos/www.paphotos.comThe late Paula Yates, mother of Peaches and Pixie, always believed her father was TV presenter Jess Yates. But, following the suicide of partner Michael Hutchence, Paula found out her real father was quiz show host Hughie Green, who died six months before the INXS singer.
PA Photos/www.paphotos.comEntourage star Adrian Grenier grew up not knowing who his father was. It wasn’t until he got the part as Vincent Chase, who’s trying to reconnect with the man he once called “Daddy”, that Adrian considered getting in touch. They now see each other regularly.
PA Photos/www.paphotos.comWhen Anna Nicole Smith died in 2007, you couldn’t move for men coming out of the woodwork claiming to be her baby daughter’s father. Potential dads hoping to become the guardian of baby Dannielynn and her $1.6b fortune included Zsa Zsa Gabor’s husband Prince Frédéric von Anhalt, Anna Nicole’s lawyer Howard K. Stern, her personal trainer Alexander Denk - even OJ Simpson put his hat into the ring. A DNA test ended the squabbling and confirmed that Anna Nicole’s former boyfriend Larry Birkhead was the real dad.
PA Photos/www.paphotos.comWhen Cary Grant was nine, his father told him his mother had gone on “a long holiday”. He grew up thinking she had abandoned him when she’d actually been put into a mental institution after suffering severe depression
PA Photos/www.paphotos.comWhen Spice Girl Mel B announced she was pregnant, Eddie Murphy shocked the world by telling a Dutch reporter: "I don't know whose child that is until it comes out and has a blood test.” As it turned out, baby Angel was Eddie’s; but the star is still refusing to meet his daughter because he believes he was tricked into having her. Nice!
PA Photos/www.paphotos.comJude Law had everyone’s jaws dropping when he suddenly announced he had fathered a baby by a mystery woman. Though the actor refused to release any details about the mother-to-be, within 48 hours, she’d revealed herself as American model Samantha Burke.
PA Photos/www.paphotos.comJack Nicholson was brought up believing that his grandparents were his parents and his actual mother was his sister. The actor only found out the truth from a Time magazine journalist who was doing a feature on him. By that time, both his mother and grandmother had died, leaving him no way of finding out who his father was. "Only Ethel and June knew and they never told anybody,” he said.
PA Photos/www.paphotos.comJust like Jack Nicholson, Eric Clapton also grew up thinking his grandparents were his parents and this mother was his older sister. His father, a soldier from Quebec, was shipped off to war before Eric was born and afterwards returned to his wife in Canada.
PA Photos/www.paphotos.comWe’re used to seeing Samantha’s antics on Sex And The City, but Kim Cattrall received some revelations of her own when she took part in BBC1’s Who Do You Think You Are? The actress discovered that her grandfather had abandoned his eight-year-old daughter (her mother) and bigamously remarried a new wife, with whom he’d had four children.
PA Photos/www.paphotos.comKerry Katona found out that she had a secret family when she hired a private detective to track down her father, Ron Armstrong. Unfortunately Kerry never met her dad as he had died of cancer but she did find out that she had four half-brothers and a half-sister thanks to him.
PA Photos/www.paphotos.comKiefer Sutherland reportedly discovered he had a half-brother while reading the obituary of a distant relative. When she died in February 2007, Louise Scott revealed that Kiefer’s father Donald, who was also her cousin, fathered her son John.
PA Photos/www.paphotos.comSteve Bing claimed he’d never had an exclusive relationship with Liz Hurley and when, in 2001, the model announced she was pregnant, he demanded a DNA test. Surprise, surprise, it turned out he was the dad.
PA Photos/www.paphotos.comLindsay Lohan wrote a bitter blog on her MySpace page on discovering that her father Michael had a secret love child. “My father just let my family and I know, amongst others that he had another child after my little sister Aliana, or maybe he had it before Aliana?? Either way, he cheated on my mother and that really sucks…” Later it was revealed that Lindsay’s half-sister is 13-year-old Ashley Kaufmann.
PA Photos/www.paphotos.comLiv Tyler found out she was the rock ‘n’ roll offspring of Aerosmith’s Steve Tyler when she met the singer, aged nine, and noticed how much she resembled his other daughter Mia. Her mother Bebe Buell claimed she kept Steve’s true identity a secret from her daughter because he was addicted to drugs when Liv was first born. Father and daughter now have a close relationship and Aerosmith performed several songs for Liv’s film, Armageddon.
PA Photos/www.paphotos.comWhen his mother died, Micheal Caine discovered he had an elder half-brother, called David, who suffered from severe epilepsy and had been hospitalised in a mental institution his entire life. Michael’s mother had regularly visited her son in hospital but had never told her husband of his existence.
PA Photos/www.paphotos.comMel Gibson secretly dated Russian musician Oksana Grigorieva following his marriage break-down and 2006 DUI arrest. Oksana is now expecting what will be Mel’s eighth child.
PA Photos/www.paphotos.comMichael Jackson’s death has only increased the speculation surrounding the parentage of his children. The mother of his youngest son, Blanket, has never been revealed, while Michael Jackson’s paternity of Paris and Prince Michael I’s has also been questioned.
PA Photos/www.paphotos.comThere wasn’t really any way that Mick Jagger was going to salvage his marriage to Jerry Hall after newspapers revealed that Brazilian model Luciana Gimenez Morad was pregnant with his love child.
PA Photos/www.paphotos.comNicole Richie was adopted by soul singer Lionel and his wife Brenda when she was two. The Simple Life star publicly refuses to reveal the identity of her biological parents “for confidentiality reasons” but has confirmed they were friends of her adoptive dad before she was born. Reports suggest that Nicole’s real father was 1980s pop musician Pete Escovedo Jr and her mum was a backstage assistant on Lionel’s world tour.
